Nick Hotujec always imagined his future would be built on spreadsheets, not pipes. Numbers fascinated him — the way businesses tick, the strategies behind profits and growth. He enrolled at the Community College of Allegheny County in Pittsburgh to become a certified public accountant, certain his path led to taxes, financial plans and a clean, orderly career in accounting.
But life has a way of tossing in a curveball. While earning his associate’s degree, Hotujec watched his brother-in-law transform a rundown house into a livable home, and something inside him shifted. The meticulous kid who once calculated balance sheets suddenly found
